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"Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before."
—Vita Sackville West October 25, 1918 |
Socks First, Then the Shoes
Musings about Acting, Art, and the Human Condition
Over the past 40 years, I have been gathering quotes about acting, theater, life, love, and the human condition. When I started my journey as an artist, the following excerpts helped to shape me, not only as a storyteller, but as a man. Many of these contemplations are from mentors, collaborators, teachers, students, most of them smarter and more eloquent than me. And while my thoughts and feelings about some of these have changed over the years (just as the world and I have changed!), the sayings and witticisms that follow still resonate with me. Artists, writers, philosophers… their beautiful language… their thoughts never stop inspiring me. Their wisdom asks me to examine the past, reconsider the present, and hope for a better future. Or at the very least, their words make me smile. I hope you find that Socks First, Then the Shoes does the same for you.
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